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Distorted artwork in illustrator

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June 2, 2023
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Recently, any vectored file that I import into Illustrator paste in much larger than its original size. Additionally, the holding lines are much thicker. This is only a recent problem for me, as in the past, imported vector images always pasted seamlessly with their holding lines being the same weight.

Have I perhaps pushed a wrong button somewhere to start all of this? Thanks.

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Correct answer Mossy60

Thanks everyone. I will experiment and try everyone's advice, and see where it gets me. When all is said and done, I will let you know if I have been able to get things back to "normal" as it were.

Addressing the collective. The moving a PDF over to ilIlustrator solves by overall problem. I will continue to try to understand why the enlargement thing happened to begin with, but if I encounter that again, I can simply bring a PDF over and work from there. It's an extra step, but solves my overall issue.

There was the mention of perhaps having issues related to fonts. There are letters in several of my images, but no fonts. Each letter is an individual vectored piece. This is a trick I learned in order to make sure that pieces of artwork are more historically precise as I redraw them. I am able to place individual letters exactly where they need to be, as opposed to settling for wherever a vector drawing platform places them via there font parameters.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in. This is my first experience with any type of online support group. You guys are awesome!

Clay

Jacob Bugge

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Mossy,

Can you state the original size as well as the pasted size?

What happens if you set the W value (in the Transform panel) of the pasted artwork to be the same as the original width and then Ctrl/Cmd+Enter (hold Ctrl/Cmd and press Enter)?

My first thought was that it could be something with the difference between the default/often used resolution of 300PPI, maybe as a setting in Powerpoint (which I have never had). That could make the pasted size 4.1667 times larger than the original, so you could just scale the pasted artwork to 24% (or multiply the W value by 0.24 (just add *0.24 to the current value) and Ctrl/Cmd+Enter.

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Mossy60Author

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Thanks. The last piece of artwork I attempted to insert into illustrator was a piece of artwork 33.77 inches tall, by 54.85 inches wide. I was inserting it into a 3 x 5‘ illustrator palette. When I pasted it, it ended up being 50 inches tall roughly, by 85 inches roughly. I was able to shrink it down to its original 33.77 x 54.85, but once again, all of the holding lines were too thick. I’m not sure what kind of formula it would take on power port side to get it right.

My point from the beginning has been this. Up until recently, anything I brought from PowerPoint over to illustrator pasted in the exact same size I drew it to begin with. So, I am not certain what I did to change things. I have an ancient version of PowerPoint, and a not so new version of illustrator, both contained completely within my computer. So, no updates came my way that should have altered anything.

Jacob Bugge

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Ok. The height of my original art is a group should be 44.62 inches high, by 43. 08 inches wide. As you can see, it is 74.4504 inches high, by 71.7074 inches wide. The only options I have to work with are all on the top of the ribbon, as per my water photograph, as you can see. Where do I want to go within that ribbon to this? Or, is that my option?

Mossy,

It seems that you are working with 120 PPI in your ancient PP (Power Point), and in AI it shows up at 72 PPI: 44.62/74.4504 = 0.6 = 72/120.

So you just need to scale it down by the factor 0.6, in other words to 60% in Object>Transform>Scale Uniform, or by adding *0.6 to the W value and press Ctrl/Cmd+Enter in the Transform panel, and obviolusly tick the Scale Strokes & Effects in either place, as Larry has said.

This has made me wonder:

"I have an ancient version of PowerPoint, and a not so new version of illustrator, both contained completely within my computer. So, no updates came my way that should have altered anything."

Have you updated/upgraded your OS?

That could bring about changes, even serious/devastating ones if you go (too far) beyond what the applications were made for.

Some have issues with old AI versions, CS or even early CC, after upgrading the OS, or even lost the ability to work with those versions.

So maybe you are lucky to have things work at all.

Monika Gause

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From where do you get the files that you open in Illustrator?

How do you import them?

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Mossy60Author

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Indraw of my illustrations, believe it or not, in PowerPoint. From there, I simply highlight, and copy, or cut, and then paste into illustrator. Forever, it worked just fine. Suddenly, everything is pasting into illustrator much larger than original, and if I'm using holding lines in any particular piece of artwork, those holding lines get much thicker, which was not the case previously. Thanks.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I would be happy that it works at all.

There might have been changes in how either Powerpoint or Illustrator handles the clipboard. So there's probably not a lot anyone can do to help you.

You might take a video of this and provide the files and post a feature request on Uservoice. The developers can then check out whether they can solve it on their end.

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

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